Fresh from recreating the boiler room scene from Spirited Away for the Oculus Rift, game designer Nick Pittom tackles an even more magical scene from director Hayao Miyazaki's classic work — the bus stop sequence from My Neighbor Totoro. This is what I'd buy an Oculus Rift for. » 5/31/14 6:35pm 5/31/14 6:35pm

Set up three Kinect cameras in an equilateral triangle, use an Oculus Rift as a head-mounted display, merge all that with a virtual office environment and you got yourself your own 3D conference room... with some glitches. » 5/14/14 5:30am 5/14/14 5:30am

Playing with the Oculus Rift is better with friends. You can get your head chopped off, or use them as your personal "gaming chair." The idea is simple: The player with the headset on enjoys the game, like this hang gliding simulator, while the others lift, tilt and push the player, following on-screen instructions. » 5/07/14 9:20am 5/07/14 9:20am

Virtual reality and gaming technologies have been used by militaries across the world for training and therapeutic purposes. But the Norwegian military has taken VR-assisted combat to the next level with this Oculus Rift-supported rig used to pilot tanks through dangerous combat situations. » 5/05/14 11:00am 5/05/14 11:00am

One moment, it's a pleasant mask of a female face. The next, it's the shriveled mask of a nightborne hell-beast. Sweet dreams! » 4/24/14 9:40am 4/24/14 9:40am

The Shaolin Temple, that place you hear about in all those Wu-Tang rap songs, is very much part of the 21st century. But despite the Shaolin monks and their affinity for technology, according to the abbot, video games and television are off limits. » 4/21/14 5:00am 4/21/14 5:00am

Government researchers must have a Batman fetish. Perhaps that explains why so many have named their projects after him—it's federally-funded cosplay. The question is why this odd bunch of projects bear the Dark Knight's name. » 4/18/14 6:14pm 4/18/14 6:14pm

By using your own custom-built Titanfall Eject Button. It's not just one of those big red buttons you can buy everywhere, but one that was created and programmed for one purpose only: To help you leave your Titan in the coolest way possible. » 4/09/14 7:40am 4/09/14 7:40am

This beautiful blue Scania truck rolling over a hilly highway is a demonstration of CGI software called OctaneRender 2.0. The future of animation and video games might be prettier than real life. » 4/01/14 12:20pm 4/01/14 12:20pm

Imaginary locations are great places to stage heart-stopping scream sequences. Nothing like being lost inside the bowels of a giant monster, an abandoned space station or the burning plains of hell for put the fear in you. But you know what else is really scary? The real world. In particular, that abandoned 7-11 off… » 3/25/14 3:00pm 3/25/14 3:00pm

Is it too early for science? I don't think so. YouTuber spumwack is here to show us that Minecraft can be an awesome tool for visualizing complicated subjects, like the mechanisms of light speed. » 3/25/14 6:20am 3/25/14 6:20am

Hopefully we'll get to see something similarly pretty in our lifetimes—well, that's not the main problem. Something similarly pretty but in-game, and with an acceptable framerate. Yeah, that's it. » 3/24/14 5:20am 3/24/14 5:20am

There was a time when we didn't need games on our phones, because every phone came with a built-in game of roundabouts. Kids today have no idea what they missed, and don't seem too impressed when they find out. » 3/03/14 9:07am 3/03/14 9:07am

The BeamNG guys are on Steam Greenlight now. They're celebrating with a brand new trailer. It's pretty good. » 2/13/14 5:30am 2/13/14 5:30am

Audun Mathias Øygard's creative experiment uses real-time facial recognition to hide your face in a webcam feed with different masks. That could be handy if you want to scare your friends with a real-time Nicolas Cage imiatation (don't forget to use it with a proper soundboard) or just confuse them while playing… » 1/08/14 7:20am 1/08/14 7:20am

Finding something glitchy and weird on Google Maps and Google Street View is always exciting. It feels like finding the needle in a haystack, even if it's just a malformed panorama photo. Artist Emilio Vavarella decided to collect the best ones into a gallery, to reflect the relationship between humans and… » 1/07/14 11:00am 1/07/14 11:00am

In case you weren't scared enough of the reach of the US National Security Agency, reports coming out of Germany are accusing the intelligence agency of literally seizing shipments of computers, installing malware and sometimes even hardware bugs on them. » 12/29/13 8:00pm 12/29/13 8:00pm

Say goodbye to V-sync, uninstall your bootleg copy of FRAPS and reconsider picking up one of Nvidia's Shield handhelds. During its "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" event in Montreal today, Nvidia unveiled a trio of technologies that could make its video cards an indispensable part of any PC gaming rig. » 10/18/13 5:00pm 10/18/13 5:00pm